You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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